Week 9:Summary and intro to later
phenomenological and existential thought on temporality (Heidegger, Sartre,
Merleau-Ponty).

Reading: Lecture Paper.

Week 10:Sartre’s existential discourse on the
Self / Ego and its relation to that which is disclosed by Husserl’s
phenomenology.

Reading: Extracts from Sartre’s text, The
Transcendence of the Ego and Husserl’s Cartesian Meditations.

Week 11:The Self as a unity of a life-history.
Husserl’s discourse on oneself as a community that is stretched out through
time – including some contemporary analytical forms of approach to this theme.

Reading: Extracts from Husserl’s
Crisis of European Sciences and Transcendental Phenomenology.

Week 12:The deconstruction of Western discourse
on time and self-presence: non-linear forms of temporality (Derrida).

Reading: Lecture Paper.

Bibliography

Saint Augustine

Confessions. Trans. R.S.
Pine-Coffin. Penguin.

Cairns, Dorion

Guide for Translating Husserl. The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff. 1973.

Derrida,
Jacques

Edmund Husserl's "Origin of
Geometry": An Introduction by Jacques Derrida. Translated with a preface and
afterword by John Leavey, Jr. University of Nebraska Press. 1989. Copyright 1962 by the
Presses Universitaires de France.